Improvement in sad-irons



TINTTRD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BARRY AND O. W. PRESTON, JR., OF GORNING, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-IRONS.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 52,513, dated February13, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES BARRY and OLIVER W. PRESTON, Jr., ot'Corning, in the county ot' Steuben and State ot New York, have inventeda new and Improved Sad-Iron and Heater; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' thisspeciiication, in Which- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of ourinvention; Fig. 2, a detached plan or top view of the sad-iron.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates toa new and improved sad-iron and heater, wherebythe iron may be heated by gas, and a very portable andconvenientarrangement obtained both as regards the heating and the useor manipulating of the iron.

The invention is an improvement upon and an adaptation to gas as aheating medium of a sad-iron and heater patented by us July 7, 1863, anoil-lamp being formerly used.

A represents a cylinder, the lower part of which is perforated withholes c for the admission of air, and the upper end covered withwire-cloth b.

B is a horizontal tube, which is attached to and communicates with thelower part ot' the cylinder A, and has an elastic tube, O, n'tted uponit, which is connected with a gas-burner. (See Fig. l.)

D is a shield, which is connected to the cylinder A, and extends from' alevel with the bottom of the same toa considerable distance above itstop, or as high up as the sad-iron when the latter is placed on thecylinder, as shown in Fig. 1.

The parts above described comprise the heating arrangement, the cylinderA being a gas-chamber into the lower part of which air enters, the gasbeing consumed at the upper surface ofthe wire-cloth I).

E represents thesad-iron, which is composed otl a shell, c, having ahandle, d, attached to it at one side. "Within the shell c a heater, F,is placed, which extends the whole length ot the iron, and has a plate,G, at each end oi' it, and these plates serve as doors and coveropenings e at the front and rear ends otthe iron when the'iron is inuse. The heater is allowed to slide freely within the iron, andbyinverting the latter the heater will descend toward the top ot' theshell c, leaving the openings e entirely uncovered, so that when theiron is placed on the cylinder A it will serve as a chimney, as shownclearly in Fig. 1, and the heat from the gas-Haine will pass up throughthe iron, and both the heater and the bottom of the shell will heheated. In removing the heated iron from the cylinder A it is turneddown to a horizontal position,and the heater will fall to the bottoni ofthe shell, the plates or doors G covering the openings e. Thus it willhe seen that the irons may be heated with the greatest facility and theheating device placed Within convenient reach of the operator, theelastic tube C, which may be ot any desired length, admitting ot' this.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent The heater F, provided with plates or doors G Gat its ends, and litted within the shell c of the iron, substantially asand for thegpurpose herein set forth.

CHARLES BARRY. oLrvnR w. rResroN, JR.

